Word: evil
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...force of arms, and subsuming them into a foreign state which they have long feared and wanted separation from, is a cause of minimal justice and less nobility. To do so by a long, wearying war of intimidation and fear and murder is one of the most evil endeavours of our age. Its only result will not be a "united" Ireland, but a new civil war--and bloodier than any we have seen so far--in which the embittered minority in the North would attempt to destroy the occupying force of the South. This is the nightmare which Noraid...
...message was stated clearly in Bok's October I regurgitation of past open letters. "I do believe that the tactics of divestment will not succeed and that they would cost the university money." For those who missed the point, it was something akin to "sure, apartheid is evil, but it is profitable as well...
...succeeds in discrediting divestment as a mode of conduct for a university and as a means to encourage reform, Bok fails to clarify the motivations behind current University efforts. In delineating "the nature of the University itself and the ways in which it should or should not respond to evil in the outside world," Bok merely rules out divestment. What remains frustratingly unclear is whether Harvard, in dealings with companies doing business in South Africa, thinks it can push for improvement or is just making symbolic gestures expressing opposition to apartheid. It is this question of intent that Bok leaves...
...leap from the private wrongdoer--"the poor friend and domestic tyrant"--to the perpetrators of twentieth century evil is the mental gymnastic that underlies the book's analysis Cruelty and its bedfellows, like our private lives, all have public faces...
Implausible as they may be, Nolte and Williams (the Forces of Good) ally against the System, with Judd Hirsch as Evil Force I and Lee Grant as Evil Force 2. Hirsch is anti-typecast as a former idealist corrupted by the System, and it hampers his performance as a villain. Hirsch reeks of integrity, even while trying to lie, cheat, and bluff his away around Williams and Nolte, though the part of head witch suits Grant very nicely...